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Table 1 List of microscopic samples removed from the HSML gourd with corresponding descriptions and sampling sites

From: In search of Humboldt’s colors: materials and techniques of a 17th-century lacquered gourd from Colombia

Sample

Description

Location

S1

Cross section of green decoration

Area of green background on outer neck, where edge is broken and part of decoration has detached

S2

Cross section and scraping of red decoration

Area of red border on inner neck, where edge is broken and part of decoration has detached

S3

Cross section of golden decoration

Area of golden and blue triangles on inner neck, where edge is broken and part of decoration has detached

S4

Cross section and scraping of yellow decoration

Area of yellow leaf near unicorn figure, where a small part of decoration has detached

S5

Fragment of untinted resin

Area of untinted resin on interior along fracture, where part of resin has detached

S6

Cross section of silver-white decoration

Area of silver-white moon on red band along fracture

S7

Fragment of bare gourd

Area of bare gourd on neck, where edge is broken and decoration has detached